New CPU Upgrade.

IntelOverAMD

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I've decided to upgrade my CPU, but I can't choose what to upgrade to. I want to upgrade to an i7-6700k in September, but Intel is said to release a new series in December. I don't want to upgrade and immediately get out-classed by another i7. I really need a new CPU, because my current one (i5-2320) is starting to slow down and bottleneck my GTX 1070.

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No worries there. A good Skylake chip will last you a long time...


THis will always be true. In six months, teh will be something better.
Just upgarde and forget about it. So what if new stuff comes out? Are you upgrading for bragging rights and benchmarks or for gaming?
 

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I'm not going for bragging rights. I just want to not have to upgrade for a while.
 

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http://wccftech.com/intel-kaby-lake-core-i7-7700k-cpu-leaked/

Assuming that is correct, which I certainly can't verify, it looks like the high end Kaby Lake CPU would be the i7-7700K which would be a 3.6GHz base clock 14nm CPU. The i7-6700K (Skylake) is a 4.0GHz base clock 14nm CPU. Both can run on Z170 based motherboards, but Kaby Lake should also see the release of the 200 series chipsets which are supposed to offer 24 PCIe 3.0 lanes whereas Z170 offers 20 PCIe 3.0 lanes.

IMO, if you intend to use a single GPU and at most an M.2 SSD (NVMe PCIe 3.0 x4) then you only need 20 PCIe 3.0 lanes to begin with. Everything else can connect via SATA or via the PCIe lanes from the Z170 chipset rather than the CPU itself.

The 6700K should be a capable chip for a very long time, and it would take a fairly sizeable IPC bump for the Kaby Lake 7700K to outpace the 6700K given the 400MHz base clock difference. Overclocking is a separate story; obviously if both are at the same speed then the Kaby Lake is a couple percent higher, or whatever the IPC gain is of this generation (we can't know).

As said above, you can always wait for new hardware. The cheap solution is to get a better CPU to fit your board and upgrade your RAM. If you lack an SSD, then absolutely add one of those. A 2500K with some decent overclock, coupled with 16GB RAM, and a good SSD should be satisfactory and should cost far less than a Z170 board, a 6700K, and DDR4.
 

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My current PC specs consist of:
CPU: i5-2320 3.2 Ghz Turbo
MOBO: ASRock Z75 Pro3
RAM: 16Gb G-Skill Sniper 1600Mhz
GPU: ASUS GTX 1070 Strix
SSD: Samsung 850 Evo 256Gb
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 1Tb
HDD 2: Seagate Barracuda 500Gb
PSU: EVGA 500B
I've looked into getting a 2600k, but I stream a lot and I just don't think that it will keep up with what I need it to do.

 


No worries there. A good Skylake chip will last you a long time. And some new hardware coming out does not shorten the span. Massive adoption of superiour CPUs would, as developers would start pushing the limits. And seeing how a 2012 i5 3750k is perfectly fine even without an overclock, said adoption is really not bound to happen in less than 5 years, should you go with an i5 6500, for example.

As for the 6700k, well.. do the math :)
 
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